I don’t remember ever having this much time on my hands. When we were prepping for the move I daydreamed about how much I would accomplish with all of this time. I put aside a ton of books to read, clipped recipes to try and vowed to work on my photography. Here I am, two months into our new life and I haven’t gotten very far in my books, my bread hasn’t been rising and I’ve been rushing through my photography because I’ve been focused on getting dinner on the table at a reasonable time.

I have made popovers twice since moving into our new apartment and they didn’t work either time. I’m not sure if it is the change in altitude, the new pan I was trying or the whole wheat flour I was using. I decided to get back to the basics for Valentine’s Day Dinner. I brought out a muffin tin that has worked for me in the past and bought some white flour. I was tempted to go back to my usual albeit slightly fussy recipe but was drawn away by the simplicity of a popover recipe in the recent Real Simple magazine.

I didn’t really believe that popovers could be made simply but I was proven wrong. These rose like a dream and since our main course did not succeed they supplemented quite nicely!